Allowing Directory Browsing

New in this release, Connector for Microsoft Outlook 7 2005Q4 allows the end
user to browse directories. When the user brings up the address book page, the user
sees the first 10 entries in the directory. The user can scroll up and down or type
a few characters and see the results automatically refreshed. This is a change from
previous versions of Connector for Microsoft Outlook where the user was only able to search for one
particular user.

To enable this feature while keeping good performance, the connector relies
on two LDAP control extensions called Virtual List View (VLV) and Server Side Sorting
of Search Results (RFC
2891). The following ldapsearch example returns the list
of supported controls:

To improve the performance of searches requiring VLV plus Sort, create a Browsing
Index in the Directory Server (as described in “Managing Browsing Indexing”
in the Sun Java System Directory Server 5 2005Q1 Administration Guide). Each
Browsing Index is specific to one base DN, search filter, scope, and sorting attribute.
The VLV settings can be tuned on the client side using the deployment configuration
tool.

In that particular case, create a Browsing Index for a base dn equal to dc=red,dc=sesta,dc=com, a filter equal to (&(mail=*)(cn=*)), using a sort on the cn attribute. The Browsing Index
information is added into the configuration containing the base dn (in
this case userRoot):